Reflections by comrade Fidel: The MINUSTAH and the epidemic
were about three weeks ago released news and pictures of how Haitian citizens threw stones at the armed forces of MINUSTAH and indignantly protested against this, where they accused them of having brought about a Nepalese soldiers cholera into the country.
The first impression for those who have no additional information was, that it is a trade from the dislike of any occupying power that emerged rumor.
How could that be proved? Very few of us knew the symptoms of cholera and its mode of transmission. After a few days listening to the protests in Haiti and it was not spoken about this matter.
The epidemic took its inexorable course, and other problems, such as those derived from the electoral risks we took time to complete.
met today the reliable and credible news stories of one, had really happened. The Haitian people had reasons galore to bring his indignant protest.
The news agency AFP reported verbatim: 'The renowned French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux launched last month, a study in Haiti and came to the conclusion that the epidemic has been caused by an imported strain of bacteria, and by the Nepalese base "of the MINUSTAH "Starting spread".
Another European agency EFE said, with her hand: "The origin of the disease is in the small Location Mirebalais in the central part of the country have where the Nepalese soldiers set up their camp, and they arrived a few days after their arrival, proving the origin of the epidemic ... "
" had far, the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) denied that the epidemic had been found by their blue helmets entrance into the country. "
" ... the French doctor Renaud Piarroux which is regarded as one of the most important experts in the world in the investigation of the cholera epidemic, no doubt of the origin of disease ... "
" The investigation was Paris, where, at the request of the Haitian authorities in order, said a French diplomatic spokesman. "
" ... the occurrence of the disease coincides with the arrival of the Nepalese soldiers, who also come from a country where there is a cholera epidemic.
Anders is the so sudden and severe outbreak of cholera in a small town of a few dozen people not to explain.
The report also analyzes the way the spread of evil, as the faeces of the Nepalese camps were discharged directly into the river, which refer to the inhabitants of the village get their water. "
In what did the UN, surprised at the Most of the following, as that agency announced: They move ... " an investigation mission in the Nepalese camps, whose conclusion was that this could not be the source of the epidemic. "
Haiti may waive the midst of the destruction by the earthquake, the epidemic and its poverty is not now an international force, the organization of a ensured by foreign intervention and exploitation by the transnational companies ruined country. The UN has to not only meet the basic obligation to fight for the reconstruction and development of Haiti, but also a matter of mobilizing the necessary resources to eliminate an epidemic that threatens to escalate to the neighboring Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean, Latin America and other similar countries of Asia and Africa.
Why has the UN stiffened to deny that the people of Haiti, MINUSTAH has brought the epidemic? We do not blame Nepal that has been in the past British colony, whose men were used in the colonial wars and seek employment as soldiers today.
We have at the moment in Haiti demand for its services payable Cuban doctors and they have confirmed with remarkable accuracy by the above European agencies sent messages.
I quote here a tight summary of what we Yamila Zayas Nápoles announced, specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine and Anesthesiology, director of a medical facility with 8 basic disciplines and the diagnosis by the project, Cuba-Venezuela, which was inaugurated in October 2009 in the municipality of 86,000 inhabitants comprehensive Mirebalais in the North Department.
On Saturday, the 15th October have been admitted three patients with symptoms of diarrhea and severe dehydration, and on Sunday the 16th another 4 with similar symptoms, but from the same family, so the decision was made to isolate them and tell what happened to the mission. On Monday the 17th suddenly were 28 patients admitted with similar symptoms.
The Medical Mission sent with urgency, a group of experts in epidemiology, took samples of blood and fecal samples and collected samples of vomit and the details which were sent with urgency in the national laboratories of Haiti.
On 22 October was informed then that the isolated bacterial strain corresponded to the prevailing disease in Asia and Oceania, which is the most serious. The unity of the Nepalese UN peacekeepers is stationed on the banks of the river Artibonite, which meanders through the small village Meye, where the epidemic began, and Mirebalais, where they then spread quickly.
Despite such unexpected ways died of the outbreak of cholera in the small but excellent Hospital in the service of Haiti from the first, beginning in isolated parts of the same patients treated 2822 only 13 people, representing a mortality rate of 0.5%. Later, it was established as a separate site located the cholera treatment center in 3459 patients 5 very serious cases are passed, ie 0.1%.
The total number of cholera patients in Haiti was today, Tuesday, 7 December, 93 222 people, and the code for the deceased patients reached 2120. In the Cuban Mission to the patients, the rate was 0.83%. The mortality rate in other hospitals is 3.2%. With the acquired experience, adequate measures and Amplification by the brigade "Henry Reeve", the Cuban medical mission set out to get the support of the Haitian authorities in any of the isolated 207 lying districts, so that none of the Haitian people missing in the face of the epidemic of medical care, and many lives are saved can.
Fidel Castro Ruz
7th December 2010 18:34
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